Do you, or someone in your household, bake this fragrant, hearty, genuine crusty bread? The particular loaf above is a rye bread with caraway seeds in it. It has a crispy, crunchy crust and a hole-y crumb (inside of the bread). I baked it using the fantastic recipe and videos from Breadtopia AND my brand new favourite tool (read: kitchen toy) called LaCloche (you can see it in the background.) It's a stoneware, or clay (or you can use enameled cast iron) "baker" that comes in two parts: a baking 'pan' base (more like a cake pan in shape) and a heavy lid. Available from Amazon. Click Above. The LaCloche simulates baking your bread in a clay oven (the highlight of Pioneer Days in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was the delicious bread the Hutterites baked in an earthen/clay oven behind their booth). This rye bread is no-knead... that means you don't thump and knead it as part of the process. It's made with quite a lot of water, and allowed to rise...
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